Socrates said writing would destroy human thinking processes: are the Internet and Web 2.0 havin...

1. Should textbooks still have value in a 21st Century educational system?

1.1. Teaching writing

1.2. Should we look to youth for the answer?

1.3. Firstly we need to ask what do we mean by value

1.3.1. pedagogical

1.3.2. economic

1.3.3. cultural

1.3.4. institutional

1.4. And we need to ask - how do different stakeholders value textbooks, and whose interests are paramount

1.4.1. learners

1.4.2. teachers

1.4.3. institution

1.4.4. authors

1.4.4.1. get their ideas out

1.4.4.1.1. recognition

1.4.4.1.2. income

1.4.5. publishers

1.4.5.1. maintain current business model

1.4.5.2. innovate new textbook platfroms

1.5. should we consider e-textbooks too?

2. Should there a place for social media in class?

2.1. A new Dualism?

3. I am curious about … Socrates again!

4. Personal and Social Implications

5. The Reification of Technology and the Decay of Responsibility

6. The Philosophers: Socrates; Plato; Aristotle

7. Some words of Socrates (in various texts)

7.1. Aristophanes: The Clouds

7.2. Plato: Apology

7.3. Plato: Crito

7.4. Plato: Euthyphro

8. Can Web 2.0 really change the way we learn?

8.1. Providing a visually rich and interactive environment for collaboration, networking and sharing.

9. Is the school day on the way out?

10. Is the Internet increasing our capacity to think collaboratively?

10.1. Socrates: teaching, facilitating, collaboration – and social media

11. Writing weakens memory?

11.1. which memory? long-term, short-term?

12. And what about the role of technology?

13. What's working memory?

13.1. "If there's stuff on Google why do we need to stuff it into our heads?" @islayian

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